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‘BRING HIM IN’: STEVE COHEN CALLS FOR SERGEANT AT ARMS TO FORCE BARR TO TESTIFY
Rep. Steve Cohen called for Attorney General William Barr to be detained by the U.S. House Sergeant-at-Arms for contempt of Congress and forced to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
The Tennessee Democrat made the remarks during a conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper Friday night.
Cooper introduced the segment by pointing out Cohen’s “chicken Barr” stunt on Thursday after the attorney general failed to comply with his committee’s request to appear. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has threatened contempt proceedings if Barr doesn’t appear on Monday.
“I have no reason to believe they’ll do anything that is in keeping with the traditions of the relationship between the executive and the judicial as equal branches of government,” Cohen said, responding to Cooper’s question about how he thinks Barr will respond. “I think they will stonewall at all costs because they — they know that they can’t give up information and data or the president will be exposed for the type of person and the actions he’s undertaken.”
When asked what contempt proceedings would look like, the Tennessee Democrat expressed his “hope” that “it would be inherent contempt … because we go out and take him and bring him in and have him personally brought to the House.”
“You want to send out a sergeant-at-arms and force the attorney general to come?” Cooper asked, seeming surprised.
“Yes,” Cohen responded. “Because otherwise it is up to the Justice Department. The Justice Department will not do anything to take a contempt citation from us and enforce it against their boss. So you’ve got an impossible situation and it leaves us no alternative except to use our sergeant-at-arms and to bring him in.”
“When you say bring him in, do you actually support the idea of putting him in — are you talking about just having him sit for a hearing or locking him up somehow?” asked the CNN host.
“You have to have him sit for a hearing and I think you have to have him locked up unless he agree to participate and come to the hearing,” said the Tennessee congressman.
“But do you actually believe that you’re going to — that your committee is going to order the attorney general of the United States be arrested by the sergeant of arms and put in jail?” Cooper asked again.
“I don’t know what we’ll do,” Cohen said. “But we can’t just go to the Justice Department. It is meaningless. It shows that we want to hold him in contempt but the fact is he won’t be held in contempt because the Justice Department won’t enforce a contempt citation against their boss. It won’t happen. And Trump and Barr would fire whoever tried to do it.”
After Cohen said the decision was ultimately up to Nadler, Cooper remarked that such a move could be a strategic mistake.
“Isn’t that handing Republicans an incredible thing to point to as Democratic overreach?” he asked.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/03/steve-cohen-sergeant-at-arms-barr-testify/
DEVIN NUNES CASTS DOUBT ON JOSEPH MIFSUD NARRATIVE IN LETTER TO INTEL AGENCIES
*Rep. Devin Nunes is pressing the CIA, FBI, State Department and National Security Agency for information about Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor at the center of the Russia probe.
*Mifsud allegedly told Trump aide George Papadopoulos in April 2016 that Russia had “thousands” of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
*But Mifsud also has ties to Western diplomats and intelligence services. He was first interviewed by the FBI in February 2017, during a visit to the State Department.
California Rep. Devin Nunes is pressing several government agencies for information on a mysterious Maltese professor who allegedly told Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos about Russian “dirt” on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Joseph Mifsud is portrayed in the special counsel’s investigation as a possible Russian agent. But Mifsud is also closely affiliated with Western politicians, diplomats and intelligence figures.
Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, seeks to get to the bottom of Mifsud’s allegiances. In a letter sent Friday, the Republican asked the heads of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and State Department for documents related to the professor, who has been in hiding since October 2017, when he was named in Papadopoulos’s court documents.
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to making false statements to the FBI about the timing of his interactions with Mifsud. He told FBI agents in January 2017 that he met Mifsud before joining the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos did tell the FBI during that interview about a bombshell Mifsud dropped on him during a meeting in London on April 26, 2016. Papadopoulos said Mifsud claimed to have learned that Russia had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails.
If Mifsud was affiliated with Russians, as the special counsel’s report suggested, “then an incredibly wide range of Western institutions and individuals may have been compromised by him, including our own State Department,” Nunes wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation and first reported by Fox News.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/04/nunes-mifsud-papadopoulos/
Ben Rhodes lies about Obama having knowledge of the "russia collusion investigation" after Clapper admitted "Obama is responsible for that" in early april!
Pentagon departure expands vacancies in DOD
Another Pentagon official is stepping down later this month, adding to the void of confirmed top-tier officials within the Department of Defense (DOD).
Robert Daigle, the director of DOD’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office, will leave after two years in the role.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/442041-pentagon-departure-expands-vacancies-in-dod